By Tom Tillison
Coming off the emotions of the GOP presidential primary, it seems the politicos in the state are in need of a drama fix and have selected redistricting as the drug of choice.
Driven by self absorbed bloggers who have a history of injecting themselves into high profile stories, as if the topic can only be of legitimate concern if it revolves around them, and then brought to a boil by Rush Limbaugh
By Allen Wilson
Good bye Presidential hoopla we’ll see you in August.
But for now, let’s turn our thoughts to more pressing problems for Florida and the nation. Fasten your seat belts folks; it’s going to be a bumpy ride.
This won’t be a Tea Party vs the Establishment event, that’s just so 2010. No, this is a showcase for Agenders, Fair Taxers, Occupiers (well they don’t really vote do they”), and GOOOH’ers…
By Tom Tillison
So after three years of toil by thousands of average everyday citizens who’ve sacrificed far more than they ever cared to, Florida supports John McCain yet again, just in a prettier package.
And just as in 2008, Florida will be the impetus that thrusts this better wrapped version identified as Mitt Romney one step closer to an eventual match up with Barack Obama.
There will be plenty of coverage breaking down the final numbers…
Florida Political Press
Editors Note; In response to a story reported yesterday on Sunshine State News, Americans for Prosperity Taps Tea Party Volunteers for Tuesday, and then picked up by Mother Jones, former AFP-FL Director Apryl Marie Fogel posted an in-depth follow up to comments she made that are included therein.
The controversy centers primarily on a newly instituted practice by new AFP-FL Director Slade O’Brein of paying tea party activists $2 per signature for new members recruited and the hiring of activists.
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As I said at the first Tea Party convention two years ago, I am in favor of contested primaries and healthy, pointed debate. They help focus candidates and the electorate. I have fought in tough and heated contested primaries myself.
But what we have seen in Florida this week is beyond the pale. It was unprecedented in GOP primaries. I’ve seen it before – heck, I lived it before – but not in a GOP primary race.
By Tom Tillison
It is only fitting that the mudslinging now coming out of the Mitt Romney camp is occurring here in Florida. When it comes to dirty politics, the Sunshine State stands in a class all it’s own.
Yet, desperate times call for desperate measures and fortunately for Romney, his chief campaign strategist and several of his most senior campaign staff were Charlie Crist’s top political advisers who are ever so familiar with the political turf here in Florida.
Press Release
Orlando, FL – In another sign of Newt Gingrich’s surging momentum, 200 additional Tea Party Organizers have joined the coalition Tea Partiers With Newt.
This Coalition now represents 300 Tea Party organizers from 36 states who have joined together to help elect a bold Reagan conservative in Speaker Newt Gingrich and defeat Massachusetts Moderate Mitt Romney and then President Barack Obama.
By Diane Leone
A Journey For Newt, A Journey For America
It’s Saturday and I’m traveling home from South Carolina after an exhausting and exhilarating 4 day trip to campaign for Newt Gingrich. Less than a week ago, I had a full and busy week of appointments on my calendar. How did I end up in South Carolina?
By Matthew Falconer
Orange County is placing on the January 31st election ballot a corporate welfare program known as the “Orange County Economic Development Ad Valorem Tax Exemption Referendum.”
Conservatives call this type of incentive program “corporate welfare” while the grass roots on the left call it “crony capitalism.”
By Tom Tillison
Herman Cain, who was in Central Florida this past week in support of U.S. Senate candidate Craig Miller, will deliver the tea party rebuttal to President Obama’s State of the Union address next week.
Cain, former frontrunner in the GOP presidential primary, will have a chance to “square off with the failed politics of the Obama administration,” Tea Party Express said in a statement announcing the Tuesday speech.
By KrisAnne Hall
Our founders deliberately did not establish a democracy, because in that form of government, the majority would always choke to death the desire for Liberty of a minority. Yet another point that Mrs. Ginsberg might be wise to share with Egypt instead of encouraging them to strive “to achieve a general democracy…”
The dichotomy of her praise and criticism of our founders and our Constitution shows that she is greatly misinformed of both…
By Allen Wilson
Good bye Presidential hoopla we’ll see you in August.
But for now, let’s turn our thoughts to more pressing problems for Florida and the nation. Fasten your seat belts folks; it’s going to be a bumpy ride.
This won’t be a Tea Party vs the Establishment event, that’s just so 2010. No, this is a showcase for Agenders, Fair Taxers, Occupiers (well they don’t really vote do they”), and GOOOH’ers…
By Rick Steeby
I am not a fan of this two-party system where your personal beliefs have to be compromised to one party platform or the other based on the lesser of two evils.
I am reminded of my own words of how Congress has become entrenched and regardless of party they are more concerned with the power and the prestige of office then in service to their country.
By Tom Tillison
So after three years of toil by thousands of average everyday citizens who’ve sacrificed far more than they ever cared to, Florida supports John McCain yet again, just in a prettier package.
And just as in 2008, Florida will be the impetus that thrusts this better wrapped version identified as Mitt Romney one step closer to an eventual match up with Barack Obama.
There will be plenty of coverage breaking down the final numbers…
By Allen Wilson
I remember the instant that the mood changed.
As my lens focused beyond the Washington Monument and upon the Capital Dome I recognized that I no longer felt proud of this city. I was embarrassed that under that dome sat men and women who first thought of themselves before they thought of their nation.
